Screen-door attachment.



O. SPENCER.

SCREEN DOOR ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED, AUG. 11, 1908.

942,223. Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

attozmugo CHARLES SPENCER, OF KAW, OKLAHOMA.

SCREEN-DOOR ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. August 11, 1908.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

Serial No. 447,971.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES SPENCER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kaw city, in the county of Kay and State of Oklahoma, haveinvented a new and useful Screen-Door Attachment, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to an attachment for doors, windows and the like,that are side hinged, and has for its object to provide 1 a simplestrong and eflicient overhead secondary screen for the top of a door orwindow to prevent flies and other insects from entering the room abovethe top of the door or window when the same is opened for any purpose.

To this end the invention consists of the novel construction andarrangement of parts hereinafter described, and claimed, and illustratedin the drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upperportion of a screen door with my invention applied and, Fig. 2 an endelevation of the same.

Similar reference characters are used for the same parts in all thefigures.

The frame of the secondary screen A is preferably made of stout wire andcomprises a straight horizontal length l slightly longer than the widthof the door and hinged to the door frame 2 above the top of the door bystaples 3, or otherwise. At the hinge side of the door frame 2 the wire1 is bent back upon itself for a suitable distance in the form of asemi-circle 4 and fastened to the hingedportion 1. When the door isclosed, the frame wire 4 hangs downwardly against the outer side of-thedoor. The opposite end 5 of the wire 1 may be bent at a right angle,parallel to theplane of the semi-circular portion for a suitabledistance, and then bent again at 6 to form a brace 7 extending in astraight line, but at an angle from said bend 6 to the hinged sec tion 1at a point midway between the ends of the semi-circular portion 4 andthere fastened, as at 8.

A supporting rod 9 parallel to the end piece 5 and a suitable distancefrom it, is fastened by its ends to the rod 1 and to the brace 7, andserves to uphold the woven wire screen 10 with which the screen A iscovered. The outer end of the supporting rod 9 has a finger 11 whichprojects beyond the brace 7 for a short distance in a curve, the use ofwhich will be described later.

Fastened to the under side of the semicircular frame wire A near thefastening of its inner end to the straight piece 1 is a projection 12preferably curved on its under side to bear against the upper rail ofthe door when closed. This projection may be wire or other material.

As above described, the secondary screen hangs downwardly on theoutside. of the door when the latter is closed, as shown in Fig. 1,entirely covering the space between the top of the door and the doorframe, and the upper part of the space at the outer edge of the door,while projection 12 it will be noted rests against the outside of doornear the top. Should the door be now opened, it will push the projectionat first outwardly and then upwardly turning the secondary screen to asubstantially horizontal position over the door. If the door he openedtoo far and pass beyond the screen, and the latter sags by its weight,the upturned finger 11 will be struck by the door when it is closed andraise the depressed portion of the secondary screen high enough toenable the door to pass beneath it.

lVhat is claimed is 1. A screen for use at the top of doors, comprisinga horizontal hinged frame suitably covered and adapted to swing outsidethe door when the latter is closed, and above it when said door isopened, a portion of the free edge of the frame being inclined withrespect to the hinged edge, and another por tion of said free edge beingbowed outwardly from the hinged edge.

2. A screen for use at the top of doors, comprising a frame hinged abovea door, made of Wire and suitably covered, adapted to hang downwardlyagainst the front of the door when the latter is closed, a projection onsaid frame bearing on said door for elevating the screen when the dooris opened, and an upturned finger on the outer end of the screen.

3. The combination with a door frame, of a door mounted to swing fromsaid frame, a guard frame, means for mounting said guard frame upon saiddoor frame to swing above the opening thereof, and a member connected atthe ends to said guard frame and depending therefrom and into the pathof said door when said door is open.

4:. A screen for use at the top of doors, comprising a frame made ofWire having a straight length for pivotal attachment to a angled portionto said straight length within the return bend, a projection on said return bend for swinging the screen and a finger on the outer end of theinclined wire. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I havehereto afiixed my signadoor frame one end of which has a semil ture inthe presence of two Witnesses. circular return bend attached at its endto CHARLES SPENCER.

I VVi-tnesses:

C. L. SHIDLER, H. Gr. SMITH.

said straight length, a right angled portion at its opposite end and aninclined length extending from the extreme end of the right i

